I am digging for connections with my husband Neville's gt-gt
grandfather John DAVIES, who married Mary BOWEN? on
5 October, 1826 at St Keverne, Cornwall, England.

At this stage we have information on one son, Thomas DAVIES,
who was born c. 1828, Carmarthen, South Wales. The parentage of
Thomas has not been proven., but the indications are that John
and Mary were Thomas's parents as on the birth certificate of
his ninth and last born child, the father is stated to be Thomas
Bowen DAVIES. Parents often included the mother's maiden name
in that of their children, although for all of the other children,
the father was simply Thomas DAVIES. He emigrated to Adelaide,
Australia in 1832 on Board the "Amazon" , and on the
22 March, 1855 at Adelaide, South Australia, married Susannah
SYMONS. Susannah was born at St Keverne, Cornwall, England
on the 12 May 1832 and christened on 17 June 1832, I think that
she emigrated to South Australia on board "Gloucester"
13/8/1852. ( Still a lot of work to be done)

Susannah DAVIES nee SYMONS (photo below) taken at the age of 86,
was born to Robert/Richard SYMONS and Miriam ROSKILLY. (I always
understood her mother to be Catherine but Miriam Roskilly is what
was on her death cert. Maybe she was Catherine Miriam or in reverse.
Still attemping to find out)

Thomas and Susannah DAVIES settled
around the Stawell area of Victoria and were engaged in the mining
activities of that period. Their first child, a daughter, Catherine
Mary DAVIES, born 27 September, 1856 at Kangaroo Flat, Victoria,
married Benjamin BRYANT (see Bryant
Family History). Other children of the marriage are -

An obituary Notice in
the Stawell News (Victoria, Australia) dated 13/03/1894 reads:-Thomas DAVIES died at residence of Mr Alexander Walker,
of Mayes Street, Stawell. (Who is connected by intermarriage.)
Drove No 1 Engine of the North Cross Reef Coy. "The Duke"

On the right is a photo of Susannah
Davies headstone in the Kalgoolie Cemetery.
(Grave No 5023: Location: Sec J , Block:57, Plot 28)

I would be interested to hear from anyone who has any information
on any of these families. You can write to me at <jvbryant
at halenet dot com dot au>.. The
family of Catherine Mary DAVIES & Benjamin BRYANT has been
fully researched and documented by the late William Kent of Perth,
WA.

Buried in the same plot in the Karrakatta Cemetery Perth as
Charles Esplin Davies and his wife Caroline Esther Elizabeth
is Robert William DAVIES, (Suburb-Coolgardie) died 24th January
1971, aged 65 years. He would have been born about 1906, so would
probably be a son to CE & E Davies. There is also another
burial in the same plot, that of Herbert Henry DAVIES, died 16th
September 1982, aged 74 years. I would presume this to also be
a son of CE & E Davies.

Please email me if you have any information which may link
with the above families I would be more than delighted to hear
from you. You can write to me at <jvbryant at halenet dot com
dot au>.

Names from a Birthday Book belonging
to Miriam Smith nee Bryant has the following DAVIES names included
in it,
check to see if you have anyone that you might know listed here.
Some information has been added from the Australian vital Records
CD Rom marked with an *, the normal type is from the BB:

A link to more
Cornish History go to this page - http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jlsymo/
and to find a link to my queries go to - http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jlsymo/consurn2.htm

Symons Family History

Little is known of the Symons Family at this stage. Below is
the family genealogy as we have it . Every indication has it that
they lived in St Keverne, Cornwall and in 1855 may have lived
at Falmouth, Cornwall.

In the Personal Notices in the Adelaide "Register" from
1836-1859 there is the following entry for the paper of 27 March
1855 which stated:"On the 22nd instant, by licence, by
the Rev. Joseph Dare, Wesleyan Minister, Adelaide, Mr Thomas DAVIS,
of Adelaide, to Susan, fifth daughter of Mr Robert SYMONS, of
Falmouth, Cornwall." (On Susan's
death certificate her father is stated as being Richard not Robert,
I tend to believe that Robert would be correct as the information
would have been given by Thomas & Susan, whereas Richard on
the death cert was given by the undertaker).

Please email me if you have any information which may link
with the above families I would be more than delighted to hear
from you. You can write to me at <jvbryant at halenet dot
com dot au>.A special thank you to John Symonds for his help in acquiring
new information.